Although conducted at the same venue, the men's and women's events were separated with the second women's
World Championships being conducted before the men's.

Australia was represented in the women's events for the first time in the coxed four and came a creditable
eighth in our first international outing.

The best performed Australian crew was again the men's lightweight four which won bronze. It became the
first Australian crew to win successive medals at any World Championships or FISA Championships or Olympic
Games.

The eight came second in its heat, won it repechage and finished sixth in the final.

Paul Rowe won his heat in the lightweight single, came second in his semi final but unfortunately finished
sixth in the final.

Dick Reddell and Bill Newton won the National Championship doubles under coach Steve Roll. Steve was unable
to travel overseas at that time and so Lance Robinson took over. In the end Lance was also unable to travel
so the double lacked a coach overseas and perhaps lost the benefit of a consistent coach. Steve Roll believed
this crew to be at least finalists.

Notable, in other events, was the first of many gold medals for Peter-Michael Kolbe in the single scull
for West Germany.

This regatta was important for other reasons. Coates and the coaches discussed how Australian rowing was to progress as success was not regular. These discussions were the start of the significant changes that were to occur in Australian rowing over the next four years.

Coach Peter Philp requested that the final be postponed due to unfair conditions. President Keller refused and the race progressed. However the regatta was postponed immediately after the lightweight four race.

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The ideas and format for this history originated from the Olympic Rowing and
World Senior Rowing Championship histories written by Andrew Guerin and Margot
Foster in 1991, 1992 & 1993 for the Australian team handbooks. Andrew Guerin
has developed and extended the histories to the current format in 2004 for
publication in 2004 and 2005 and acknowledges the ongoing assistance of Margot
Foster.

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